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L. N. ANDERSON DRIVEWAY Filed 001;. 23, 1922 awuembo' z lore/1Z0Nflnderson.

Patented Aug. 11, 1925.

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LORENZO N01 17001) ANDERSON, OF HAVIKINSVILLE, GEORGIA.

DRIVENAY.

Application filed October 23, 1922. Serial No. 596,460.

T 0 (a l 10. mm it may concern Be it known that I. Lolunrrzo Annunson, acitizen of the United States, residing at l-lawkinsville, in the countyof Pulaski and State of Georgia, have invented. cer tain new and usefulImprovements in Drive ways, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a driveway to be used at railroad crossings orother dangerous places and has for its object to cause the persondriving across the dangerous place to slow down speed before reaching adangerus position.

Another object of the invention is to so construct a driveway that itwill cause the driver to slow down speed he passes over a dangerousplace without injuring the vehicle.

With these and other objects in view which will be apparent to thoseskilled in this art as the description proceeds, the invention will bedescribed in connection with the accompanying drawings in which the samereference characters indicate like parts in all the views and in Which:

Figure 1 represents a top plan view of my invention as applied to arailroad crossing.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the parts shown in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a side view in elevation of one of the middle walls having apost thereon.

Referring to the drawings in detail, 1 rep resents an entrance of myimproved roadway and to the exit of the right hand side of the roadwayapproaching the railroad 15.

My driveway is divided by structures 6, 6 in two sections, 3 being theentrance of the right hand section approaching the railroad from theright, Figure 1, and at being the exit of this section of the driveway,suitable structures 5 and 7, 5 and 7 being placed on the extreme outeredges of the sections of my driveway as clearly shown in Figure 1. The

structure 6 or 6 may conveniently carry a post 8 on which suitabledirections may be conveniently posted.

The floors 11 of my driveway are constructed with comparatively deepcorrugations so as to produce considerable jolts if the vehicle passesthereover too fast, but not sufficiently deep to injure the vehicle whenpassing over at a moderate speed. 1 preferably arrange my corrugationsdiagonally of the roadway since this position prevents both front orboth hind wheels encountering a corrugation at the same time and thuslessens the jolting, but at the same time is particularly adapted towarn the occupant of the passing vehicle of danger ahead by the peculiarjolting action that would be experienced in running across diagonalcorrugations in the roadway. The road beds are conveniently made ofcement and may be conveniently slightly slanted for proper drainage Itwill be understood that the road bed might be placed only on one side ofthe den ger object or on both sides, as shown.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. A, driveway in which there is a dangerous place, said driveway beingconstructcd near such place with oblong curved structures on either sideof the driveway,

said structures being pointed at either end, the curved portions of thestructures being opposite each other, thus narrowing the driveway atthis point, the driveway having comparatively deep corrugationsextending diagonally thereof approximately from one structure to theother whereby the wheels of a crossing vehicle will not strike the samecorrugation at the same time to cause an unpleasant jolt but the joltwill be sufficient to cause a driver to slow up before reaching thedangerous place.

2. A driveway in which there is a dangerous place, said driveway beingconstructed on either side of such place with oblong curved structureson either side of the driveway, opposite each other with the curves onopposite sides of the driveway extending from points gradually towardseach other and then outwardly to points near the dangerous place wherebythe approaches to the dangerous place will be comparatively wide aconsiderable distance from the dangerous place and gradually contract toapproximately the width of a vehicle to thus cause care on the part ofthe driver, and attract his notice to the dangerous place.

3. A railway crossing comprising a drive way, an oblong pointed curvedstructure near the middle of the driveway dividing it into twodriveways, oblong curved structures opposite the first structure, thecurves of the structures reducing the two portions of the driveway to awidth approximately that of a single vehicle, said structuresterminating in points opposite each other and approximately in linesparallel with the railway track.

4. A railway crossing structure comprising a railway and drivewaysapproaching it from either side thereof, said driveways being bounded oneach side near the railway by suitable pairs of walls, the walls of eachpair converging toward each other, then diverging away from each other,and forming entrances and exits on both sides of the railway, saiddriveways being provided with corrugated floors extended transversely ofthe general direction of the driveways and approximately from the wallon one side of the driveway to the wall on the other side, thecorrugations being suiiiciently deep to warn by the jolting causedthereby, of? the presence of the railway crossing, but not sufiicientlydeep to injure the vehicle as it crosses over.

5; A road structure for railway crossings comprising corrugated floorson the sides of the railway and in proximity thereto, the floors beingbounded at the ends of the corrugations by oblong curved walls, thecurved portions serving to narrow the driveways to approximately thewidth. of a single vehicle, two of the curved walls occupying a middleposition between the outside curved walls, and a post extended betweenthe two middle curved walls, said post being adapted to receivedirections and warnings.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature.

LORENZO NOPCWOOD ANDERSON.

